Wiping Free Space?

Q:Wiping Free Space?

What exactly does wiping free space do? I use CCleaner's version of it. I was wondering if there's any way to effectively "clean" my computer to the point that not even forensic methods can retrieve information. Thank you.

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Wiping Free Space?

I recommend downloading and running Reimage. It's a computer repair tool that has been proven to identify and fix many Windows problems with a high level of success.

I need to clean my free space and was wondering what is the best type of wipe to use (3 pass, 7 pass). I don't need to go the nuclear route, just that I would have personal data that I would not want anybody to be able to retrieve.

Secondly, I have a question regarding safe deletion of files, when Recycle bin is used.

If I have a drive that is encrypted (let's say drive K:) and if I delete a file, and then empty the Recycle Bin, does that file move outside of the encrypted drive (K:) and therefore become recoverable.

T

A:Wiping free space

Three passes with CCleaner will take care of the wipe for you. That's the amount I did on my system.

I regularly use CCleaner as recommended by the virus malware removal steps including the wipe free space feature on occasion to really clean the empty space and theoretically speed up the HD etc However I recently installed a program called MagicUneraser to try to recover a file I had inadvertently deleted and after scanning the drive it found hundreds space free CCleaner wiping not of thousands of deleted files and continues to do so CCleaner not wiping free space after I have run CCleaner with the wipe free CCleaner not wiping free space space enabled several times This kind of pisses me off Are there any programs out there that actually do what they claim and CLEAN and WIPE the HD free space Alternatively are there any undelete programs that have an option to permanently delete found file fragments MagicUneraser does not offer this feature so while it can detect files that apparently CCleaner can not it can not clear them Help If I delete a sensitive document or want to CCleaner not wiping free space control the of copies of a particular document by making hard copies and deleting the active file on the HD I would like to feel confident that this is actually being done nbsp

A:CCleaner not wiping free space

I was never aware the CCleaner wiped free space. There are many free utilities that can wipe free space on hard drives. This is one:
http://www.tolvanen.com/eraser/

1 pass/3 passes/7 passes/35 passesI don't care about the time. I just want to know is it good to overwrite sth so many times. I don't want to do damage to my computer while thinking everything I do is good and 'so secure'.

A:Wiping free space - overwritting [how many passes?]

The Department of Defense had somewhere in a manual years ago that said something like 3-7 passes. It's been debunked. One pass is all that's needed. SSD have something similar, but it just tells all the blocks to go to a zero electron state. However, this will use up one life cycle of the entire ssd drive. I guess that's the price to have a clear conscience.

Windows XP Home I have been looking at image recovery programs to see what can be extracted from the free space after all the cleaning operations have been implemented Having seen the amount of information that can / 10,000 Files! Free Wiping Shredding software cannot wipe Disc Space be recovered I will no longer empty the Recycle Bin without shredding the contents but Shredding / Wiping software cannot wipe 10,000 Free Disc Space Files! it Shredding / Wiping software cannot wipe 10,000 Free Disc Space Files! seems that an enormous amount of information is still being collected which the normal individual is unaware of eImage Recovery Demo has found images and files in my deleted free space area of the hard disc Some are damaged due to overwriting but a vast majority have a clear preview picture of what can be recovered Because I do not recognise many of these pictures it seems that Windows is placing jpg bmp png etc images in this free space without my knowledge Perhaps some are gifs of bars and buttons from web surfing I have tried using some of the more user friendly and good reviews internet clearing tools available CCleaner Drive Discovery Active Privacy Guardian Washer Index dat Suite CleanCache PurgeIE IndexDat-Zap Version The images images that eImage Recovery displays seemingly cannot be removed by any of the normal space clearing methods available see below I have downloaded on trial practically every recovery program known to man and it is quite alarming to note that most only display a short list of deleted files in my free space area There are only programs that I can find which show an extended list of deleted files with preview pictures and these are eImage Recovery as mentioned above DiskInternals Uneraser and also VirtualLab Client which is a bit more complex To give you an idea how much effort I have put into this I have looked at all these programs in the hope of finding a tool that will wipe completely all the free space files beyond recovery and then check the free space after to see that no files are recoverable Active Privacy Guardian Washer NShred Super File Recover Virtual Lab Easis Data Lifesaver NetSpring Data Recover Back Life DiskDoctor DIY Data Recover Undelete Plus Wundelete Recover All Raise Data Recovery for NTFS Recover data for NTFS Arax Disk Doctor Object Rescue Pro Reviver Stellar Phoenix data recovery Data Recovery Pandora File Recovery Recovery Files Final recovery Directory Snoop Undelete Plus File Scavenger Clean Disc Security Tune Up Utilities Restoration Blanccco File Shredder BCWipe Ace Utilities Data Disk Recovery Easy Soft Undelete PC Mesh Win Hex Editor Recover Lost Data Eraser I have also wiped the free space several times using different programs yet still these files remain I have used Restoration to wipe the free space with pass Blancco File Shredder using passes Drive Discovery using passes File Shredder using passes Finally File Shredder again using the pass Guttmann Algorithm I have also wiped the slacks the file table entries and the system swap file Goodness knows what this is doing to my hard drive When I have shred every last evidence of computer internet activity shred the Recycle Bin Guttmann shredded the Free Space and removed all cookies and entries how is it possible for a basic recovery program like eImage Recovery to find so many records on my hard disc I have not tried to recover any files because this is not possible with the demo program It is not relevant anyway as the image content of the files which have not been overwritten are clearly visible and not marked as damaged I think there must be other records kept by Microsoft somewhere that are not touched by these wiping facilities I have also read somewhere that Office Word records activity which cannot be detected in the normal way Another thought I had was that the Clipboard might be applying records to the free space I have attached a few screen shots to give you an idea of the files being deposited in th... Read more

My NTFS non-system partition is now almost well defragmented. However this applies only to small and medium sized files.

There are still approx 40 big files (> 1 GB) which cannot be defragmented because there is no free single (!) space slot where they fit in.

So I need a way to shift all occupied clusters to get free contigous space on my hard disk.Currently about 150 GB is be free on my partition but divided into thousand of individual chunks.

I tried now half a dozend of defragmenters. Sad but true: NO (!) one was able to perform this easy operation.

Can someone recommend me a real defragmenter which is able to perform such a "shift" operation?

Thank youPeter

A:How to shift all free space on hard disk to get contigous free space?

I'm not sure exactly what you have and exactly what you are trying to do.

I personally use Windows 7 built in defrag and have found nothing better.

Windows 7 will put things like Windows 7 wants and needs things put.The Windows 7 defrag or 3rd party defrag programs doesn't care where you want things put or what order you want them.

As far as I know you will have no control over such things.You are obviously using a 3rd party defrag tool because you are watching the little colored squares and noticing what looks like free spaces between things. Why things are defragged in the fashion they are I really don't know.What I do know is Windows 7 defrag put things in the order that Windows 7 wants them and that is what counts.

Hi! I used to be able to burn CDs without any problem...for some reason it doesn't work anymore and I've tried quite a few things after troubleshooting by searching for solutions on-line. When I insert my CD which already has a few files on it, the details shows that there is no free space but yet only 3.43MB of data on it (it should go up to 700MB). I'm therefore unable to burn more data and I've tried the same with a blank CD, it says the same (no free space even though there is nothing on the CD yet). I have already tried uninstalling the driver and it didn't fix the problem. When I right-click Properties for the drive and go to Recording tab, the 'enable CD recording on this device' is checked as it should be. Can someone point me in the right direction? THANK YOU

A:Solved: Burning CDs - no free space when in fact there is over 600MB of free space!

does anybody know why i have 1.10 GB free space in Safe Mode and 804 MB free space in Normal? thanks. and i know that 804 MB free space isnt alot, this is a pretty small harddrive from what the computer says it is .

A:1.10 GB free space in Safe Mode, in Normal 804 MB free space?

Just guessing here but not everything lots in Safe Mode so it is not using the same that it does with a Normal boot up.

Hi, for months my C: (120 SSD) had only 2GB left of free space. So I finally purchased a 250GB SSD to replace it with. I received the drive last week and the box has been sitting on my desk. This morning I noticed that all of a sudden my C: drive is no longer in the red... I now have 30GB of free space. How can this be? I didnt uninstall any programs! All that occured on my PC is a windows update the other night...

Possible explanations?

A:Why did I suddenly go from 2GB free space to 30GB free space??

There is the system maintenance troubleshooter that runs at 1am.Issues it looks for: -Troubleshooting history is taking up disk space-Broken shortcuts-System time is set incorrectly-There are icons on the desktop that haven't been used in 3 months. -Disk volume errors-Error reports are taking up disk space

Could be disk cleanup, you could also try running that as well. It now has the new mode windows update cleanup which removed older updates that have been unnecessary as new ones replaced it. That will save you even more space.

Maybe a program updated as well.

With all these combinations it can be possible you received a good chunk of free space. However, since you stated you have not run disk cleanup or have done anything, windows might have went nutz and has been wrong about your disk usage and just now got it right.(I am thinking this is the case.)

Or you have not restarted in awhile, and this is when disk information is updated.

How do I put the hard drive space used and free space on the Partition C: ? Partition D:\ and Partition E:\ has it but for some reason drive C:\ is missing it doesn't say how much space is used and how much space is free. The GBs are missing

A:How to bring back the amount of free space and used space on a hard drive

I'm a little confused about your question

You can't see how much drive space you have left when viewing your C drive via My Computer, or similar?

If you right-click on My Computer and select Manage, when the new window pops up click on Disk Management from the left hand side. What does that tell you about C drive? Assuming your C drive is actually a hard drive (and not a CD drive or something, though I have never heard of this happening and don't even know if it's possible to have C as your CD drive), you should see details at the top of the screen such as how much space you have left, by percentage of total capacity, as well as GB

This morning a new Adobe Flash update has appeared, KB3079777. The update is sized at 17.9mb. Nothing is running on the PC, its idle and with no disk activity. Free space is 55.4GB. I apply the update and free space immediately falls to 54.9gb. This behaviour is consistent with every such patch applied. Now over time, that space will return which suggests that something else is going on here. But what ?

A:Free disk space & space used by a single Flash Update.

Looks like it is just me then. Today brought a 4.6Mb W8.1>W10 computability update. My free space changed from 55.2Gb to 54.7Gb.

i wanted to copy a cd image GB ISO format from partition F NTFS GB free to partition D FAT GB free space and windows gives me that crap there is not enough space and i should do a disk clean up ok i made a disk clean up to partition D and there was GB of system restore files maybe coz i deleted GB earlier anyway i deleted the system restore files and i turned it off so i have now GB free free Solved: space??!!!!! 15GB space it tells me and disk not enough space on partition D and yet it tells me there is not enough space i tried a trick i thought i can use winrar to archive the ISO image and select the destination folder on the partition i wanna move it to but at like winrar popped up a message that only NTFS partions can have files with file size more than GB i hope theres nothing wrong Solved: 15GB free space and it tells me not enough disk space??!!!!! with my windows or my hard disk and i wanna know if theres a way to move that ISO image thanx in advance nbsp

Help pease My computer keeps saying i gb have 1.98 help one i it then minute am of space, left of running space free out i'm running out of space I have deleted everything i can help i am running out of free space, one minute i have 1.98 gb of space left then it think of I got rid of movies videos all downloads and all music Still it says i don't have enough space In fact the red line keeps going up amp down one minute i have gb free then all of a sudden i look again and now i only have gb freee and i haven't changed anything I have followed all your steps i downloaded the malware amp antivirus the antivirus says there's no infected files the malware just had registry files infected below is the log report after the malware scan Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware Database version Windows AM mbam-log- - - - - txt Scan type Quick Scan Objects scanned Time elapsed minute s second s Memory Processes Infected Memory Modules Infected Registry Keys Infected Registry Values Infected Registry Data Items help i am running out of free space, one minute i have 1.98 gb of space left then it Infected Folders Infected Files Infected Memory Processes Infected No malicious items detected Memory Modules Infected No malicious items detected Registry Keys Infected HKEY CLASSES ROOT fis amo Adware SmartShopper - gt No action taken HKEY CLASSES ROOT fis ohb Adware SmartShopper - gt No action taken HKEY CLASSES ROOT fis momo Adware SmartShopper - gt No action taken HKEY CURRENT USER SOFTWARE UpMedia Adware SmartShopper - gt No action taken HKEY CURRENT USER SOFTWARE MediaHoldings Adware PlayMP Z - gt No action taken HKEY CURRENT USER SOFTWARE Trymedia Systems Adware Trymedia - gt No action taken HKEY LOCAL MACHINE SOFTWARE RelatedPageInstall Adware Mirar - gt No action taken Registry Values Infected No malicious items detected Registry Data Items Infected No malicious items detected Folders Infected No malicious items detected Files Infected No malicious items detected this is the virus scan results below avast Report This file is generated automatically Task 'Simple user interface' used Started help i am running out of free space, one minute i have 1.98 gb of space left then it on Wednesday July AM VPS - C Boot BCD E The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process C Boot BCD LOG E The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process C Documents and Settings All Users Microsoft Search Data Applications Windows MSS log E The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process C Documents and Settings All Users Microsoft Search Data Applications Windows MSStmp log E The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process C Documents and Settings All Users Microsoft Search Data Applications Windows tmp edb E The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process C Documents and Settings All Users Microsoft Search Data Applications Windows Windows edb E The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process C Documents and Settings sr cars AppData Local Microsoft Windows UsrClass dat E The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process C Documents and Settings sr cars AppData Local Microsoft Windows UsrClass dat LOG E The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process C Documents and Settings sr cars AppData Local Microsoft Windows UsrClass dat LOG E The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process C Documents and Settings sr cars AppData Local Microsoft Windows Defender FileTracker FC B - B - - CB - DC DED F E The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process C Documents and Settings sr cars AppData Local Temp hsperfdata sr cars E The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process C Documents and Settings sr cars NTUSER DAT E The process cannot access the file because it ... Read more

i installed ubuntu on my ssd and had a dual boot laptop, however i want to use my ssd as a cache drive, henceforth i deleted ubuntu and now i have unallocated space and free space on my ssd and i am wondering if i need to covert that into a new partitioned volume that can be used as a cache drive

A:Use unallocated space and free space on ssd as cache drive

I think you need to allocate the free space as a linux swap partition and format it as such.

I know that the above thread title has already been addressed in the past but none of them have solved my problem till now I have already read following threads- http www sevenforums com hardware- partition html http www sevenforums com general-d make space unallocated space to I free How delete it do the anagement html http www sevenforums com performan ree-space html Cannot extend volume disk management although quot free space quot exists The problem is that the free space in the screenshot below cannot be deleted to make an unallocated space nor can How do I delete the free space to make it unallocated space it be used to create a new volume Also the c amp d drives are not able to extend from the free space available thus rendering those GB useless I have also tried the help in the second link given above i e by using the partition wizard i used a bootable usb for the same i tried to convert the free space to primary partition but that option convert to primary too was greyed out in the partition wizard when i tried to do so The other option to resize the partition was also greyed out in the same partition wizard I also executed the chkdsk f in an elevated command window as suggested in the first link But no error was encountered and my laptop is working fine I just want to recover that free space PN Previously I had ubuntu root installed on the partition which now is the free space of GB As I no longer required ubuntu i removed it as per the instructions in the given video which i was successful in doing How to Uninstall Ubuntu from a Dual Boot Windows PC - YouTube a hd frameborder allowfullscreen But the only problem is that the guy in the video easily deletes the free space converting it to unallocated Actually he deletes two partitions see video at one is of the root amp the other might be the home folder to get one free space which inturn gets converted to unallocated space after deleting And the same is not happening in my case PN I too had two partitions for ubuntu one for the root amp the other for the home folder The root is the now free space in the screen shot below amp the home folder was successfully deleted and merged in the d drive I hope that i have been clear in explaining my problem Thanks in advance -

A:How do I delete the free space to make it unallocated space

Hello apple byte and welcome to Seven Forums.

If I missed this in your post, I apologize. But what happens if you assign a drive letter to the free space? Can you then delete and use disk management or partition wizard to extend the C partition?

IF YOU ARE UNSURE WHICH FILES ARE SAFE TO MOVE OR DELETE, CONTACT YOUR HELP DESK OR CONSULT YOUR SOFTWARE MANUALS.

This machine has over 30 gigs of free space. It's impossible that there is a disk space issue.

Any ideas what could be causing this? Some sort of mis-communication or setting?

Thanks

A:Disk Space Error - 30 Gigs free space

It should be a configuration setting. I'd call Dell if you just got this machine. Their "english" is a little suspect though. It sounds like some hokey Dell software reminding you to back up your drive. When does the message appear? After it boots?

Hi, I've noticed sometimes that the Free Space on my harddrives won't reflect changes I've made. For example, on my 28.6gb F: drive, I had about 586mb free. I just deleted a video file of about 700 mb, so it should be up to about 1.2 gb. Oddly enough, its still at 586mb. I emptied the recycle bin of course.

Is there a way to recalculate disc space? I have Windows XP and I do have Norton System Works. This isn't the first time disc space hasn't matched recent actions. Thanks in advance.

A:Free Space inaccuracies?? Calculating disc space?

If the video wasn't in My Docs then 'System Restore' in XP may have recorded the change to enable a future restore. To record a 700mb deletion that it may be asked to restore back takes 700mb.System restore ignores the My Docs folder so the above is irrelevant if the video was deleted from that location.

Setting up a new box Vista sadly to say Installed MS Office XP Pro and get the following error is disk space on this Free space drive some full. when closing MS Word ONLY Excel saves without any errors The disk is full Free some space on this drive or save the document on another disk Try one of the following Close any unneeded documents programs and windows Save the document on another disk I ve moved the file location and same error I cleaned up the drive including removing all restore point except the disk space is full. Free some space on this drive last one Now this thing has a gig drive but it disk space is full. Free some space on this drive is also used for security in a mini mart with cameras There are about Gigs of video from the security cameras on this box At this time I am just setting it up no cameras are connected and the security program hasn t disk space is full. Free some space on this drive been set up yet I just moved the files from the old drive to this one BTW the old drive crashed I ve tried the detect and repair in MS Word and no help I have uninstalled MS Office and reinstalled and no help and even went into Properties and set the user up on quota with no limits and still no help So now I am at a loss and have no idea what to try next Really don t want to delete the security files because it took hours to transfer them to this computer and unless all else fails this isn t a option I want to use Now on the old box which had XP Pro this was not a problem so on Vista it should not be either but then Vista is a MS Software so this is understandable Actually the old box had a gig hard drive so I think it actually has something to do with the O S VISTA but after fooling with this for two days that could just be me Now not sure if I posted in the correct forum if not please move to the correct forum nbsp

Running vista home premium -bit with GB on readings erroneous HDD space/free Used space HDD When I open quot Computer quot it shows graphically and numerically the used and free space on my drives C - normally shows GB free of GB D - Factory image - GB free of GB K - HP Pocket media drive GB free of GB The problem I am having applies only to C with the others remaining unchanged The graphical representation of free used space is in Used space/free space on HDD erroneous readings blue and white normally Here is the problem The last couple of weeks when I open quot Computer quot I sometimes get C - GB free of GB and the graphical representation is in red not blue I got an error message the other day that I did not have free space to do what I wanted to do When I checked free space it was showing in red free space of GB instead of the normal plus GB As soon as I reboot the free space is shown as the correct amount - plus GB Anyone know what is going on and how I correct it nbsp

Hi allHere is what happened.I had to uninstall HP Photosmart C4100 series only because I was missing some wording on the buttons that just disappeared for some reason, so I went on thier help and support and it showed the exact same problem and what to do about it, It said to uninstall the program and then just reinstall it.Well now, when I go to reinstall, it will not automatically start so I clicked on my computer and dvd-rw Drive (E and there are no files, in fact it states that my my file system is CDFS and the CDA Default - Full ___ It says all space used 672 MB and Free Space 0 Bytes

What the heck happened, I am no computer wizard so can you please help me to correct this, I can't download the Photosmart program back onto my computer ????

In "My computer", i would like to see how much space in gigabytes that im using for my hard drives rather than always seeing "total size" and "free space" and have to do the subtraction each time i wanna know. and i know theres a way to enable seeing a percentage, but still, not an approximate GB amount..

does anyone know how to do this?

A:How to see "space used" instead of "free space" in "My Computer"?

Hello TitusRaven -Have you attempted to use Speccy ?? This gives both Used and Free -

You can post a snapshot with Speccy for more system details -How to Publish a snapshot with Speccy <<-- Read the Full Directions Here (only Copy / Paste the link)Not just the first bit, but the Full Link (this takes 2 minutes to load )..

My laptop has 2x 7,200RMP ~320 GB hardrives. Previously I was using Vista and all partitions were devided equally (~150 GB) . After I've installed Win7 on C, part. D (which also has recovery files) suddenly became 13 GB,whilst other ones stayed the same.
So my question is where did the other 135 GB go ?

Thx in advance

A:HDD free space lost in Space....

Try posting a screen shot of disk mgmt so we can give a more accurate answer.

So a clients computer would not allow it her to save anything on the pc. I checked the hard drive and it showed 0 available space and 0 free space. The hd was not accesible. I attempted to get into windows utilities but i would get an error saying the rersource was on an unavailable network. I thought it was a damaged hard drive bit the check disk showed no errors. Safe mode showed the hard drive had space and was accesible. I ended up factory restoring the pc. Has anyone encountered this issue. I have a suspicion it could be a new virus. I have never dealt with this kind of issue.

in fact when i looked at the pie charts that show how much space i had left, all my drives (A:) (D:) (E:) (F:) had no space left and said there was 0 bytes. My local disk (C:) says i have 31.8 GB free space left or 5.43 GB used. Now i have a balloon popping up telling me that my windows virtual memory minimum is too low. What does that mean? How can i increase it and get back some more space on my other drives? Thank you!

A:Where Did My Free Space Go?

I beleive virtual memory is a diff kind of memory and also try defragmenting and also go to start run and typre cleanmgr.exe it should rid your computer of temp files and alot of crap also tune up utilities is something you should try it helped me alot

Is it necessary to keep 15% free space available on hard drive for the performance to be good?
if yes why?
i have 2GB ram and os-vista

A:is 15% free space available necessary

Windows just warns you when you have a space less than 15% (Actually this value can be changed in the registry). I once had this problem, but I feel the performance is not reduced at all especially in some normal cases. However, if you use large programs such as photoshop or ACD, you may need larger space for the temporary file, often very large, will be stored during your use.

Deleting individual files from a CD-RW does not seem to increase the amount of available disk space. So if a CD-RW is (almost) full, I can’t just delete a few files and replace them by others in Nero. I get a “disk full” error message and I always need to erase the entire disk first. Is this normal?

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Try running Disk Cleanup removing all but the last restore point, and then try CCLeaner to remove more junk files. Delete all the C:\Windows\Prefetch files , and then run chkdsk and defrag and see how much space you have.

You should also remove all hidden $NTUninstaller$ files from C:\Windows and then remove their entries from Add-Remove programs.

With a 2gb harddrive with only 600mb of space used error message saying harddrive full, free up space before saving document. When i look at available space it says 512k free! I dont think it is a windows problem (windows 98SE) because i have run scandisk on boot up prior to windows loading and has also showed harddrive as completely full. Then i can boot again and all seems fine until i try to save a document (in msword 97). The problem seems intermitent. Have done all the usual, scandisk, defrag and even ran a utility program to check harddrive (spinrite). At first i thought it looked like an ide controller problem, so i replace the motherboard. same problems. replaced cable - same problems. Could this be a ram issue? No other problems besides this. I hope someone out there can help me get to the bottom of this. Thank you very much

Last week I transferred 12 GB of media files to an external drive and deleted them from my HD and recycle bin. I expected to gain space on me internal 1.5TB HD, but instead I lost 15 GB of space. I ran a search and found the deleted files but they were empty. I ran security scans and duplicated file scans and nothing showed up. I'm very confused as to how this could happen and would appreciate any input. I've never experienced this problem before. Thanks in advance.

I originally had the free space as a D: Drive but decided to reallocate the space used back onto C:. I have gotten this far but am unsure how to continue because the extend drive option for C: is grayed out. I believe this is because the space which used to be D: is still shown as an extended partition. Please help! I have a Samsung RC512 with an Intel Core i7 Quad core processor and Windows 7 Home Premium.

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I need some help with the calculation of free space on my HDD i have a 458GB HDD but Windows shows i have no free sapce, then that i have some mb's then Kbs and then again no free space, the problem is that i've already run the cleanup tool, eliminated like 15Gb of data (images, documents, video, everything basically) also some programs but it still show that i don?t have free space, i?ve also weighted every folder and it doesent make sense (i should have like 300gb free) i?m also considering like 15gb of system recovery data, please help me my computer is really slow and i need it for doing all my homework and everything, i?ll rlly appreciate all your help!

I have been trying to investigate ways to free up space free SSD up space ! on my ssd drive which is obviously much more limited in capacity compared to my regular hard drives So far I have tried tweaking the registry to alter the default installation path of applications as I am sure SSD free up space ! you are aware some applications do not allow you to change the installation folder so by default will move to the windows directory Tweaking the registry seemed to work SSD free up space ! to a point and some applications would be installed on my bulk drive not ssd but other applications still seem to contain most SSD free up space ! of their data on my ssd drive I have investigated how to move the app data folder onto my bulk drive but it said something like quot userclass quot was in use so thefore that was out of the question Next I found out about quot symbolic links quot and wanted to test it out by moving an application that normally refuses to give me an option to change installation directory in this case Skype I ran a test on the mklink command and it worked fine when creating a folder called quot a quot on the ssd drive and creating a link to quot a quot on my bulk drive however when I entered this into command prompt quot E Users username gt mklink D C Program Files x Skype E Program Files x S kype quot it doesn't work apparently the quot syntax quot is wrong hmm ok At this point can someone tell me How I have entered that command wrong do I need a junction symbolic link or hard link Is there an application with a UI to do this easier faster Will creating symbolic links or whatever link is best put any wear and tear on the performance of my ssd drive thanks x kype quot

A:SSD free up space !

Not sure on the other thing, but Disk cleanup with the newly added windows update cleanup feature makes disk cleanup now worth running.

That should free a lot of space. Run it and see what happens. You might also try ccleaner.

Well, basically, I'm using a Dell Dimension 4550 on Windows XP Home(Yeah, I know, old as hell) and I'm a huge computer n00b. Someone told me that I should get a new Hard Disk Drive? I've been searching forums, but I don't know what hard drive I should get and if it's compatible with my computer or not. Help would be extremely appreciated, since I literally have less than 500MB left out of 74.4GB.

Thanks in advanced!

A:Low on Free Space!

More info! Basically all that's needed is either the Dell model number, or the motherboard model(doubted since dell is known for non standard boards).

Or, if you know, does it support SATA drives or strictly IDE?

Regardless; Seagate is an extremely good brand to buy HDD's from, Maxtor is one I'd stay away from.

Hello about a month ago I started having a bit of trouble with some free space going missing I figured that up taken space Free being I was simply grabbing things and not understanding how large they were after a while it started getting more serious not downloading anything and an entire gig going away in a Free space being taken up day and it kept speeding up in half a day suddenly only having a couple of megs left or simply bytes restarting my computer would often free up all of that space though not always I ve run virus scans windirstat ccleaner scandisk none of it has fixed the problem ccleaner gets rid of a few megs from internet cache and stuff but not the several gigs that are dissapearing I remembered combofix working well in the past so I figured i d grab it but restarting my computer no longer frees up more than a couple of megs upon reboot so it doesn t have the space to make one of its initialization file by the time I can run it I suppose I could try to delete something but i d like to know from you guys do you think this will free up the problem or just do nothing like everything else has

Wondering if anyone can help me out quickly, i have 19 GB hard drive and i am trying to free up space, i have done all the suggested maintence, and i am still not freeing up space. Is there something else i can do?

A:Free up space

Did you do the maintenance in Safe Mode and restarted the computer normally?

My laptop is a Dell L702x (XPS). I had to start all over because of a file permission issue. I have the factory installation disc with Win 7 Pro 64. When I get to the stage where I select the drive to install on, I always get an error telling me the installation cannot proceed because the selected drive does not have enough free space. I have formatted the drives. No help. I have deleted the partitions and allocated them again. No help, same error. One drive is a 250GB SSD and the other is a 500 GB HDD. I cannot install Windows. Now what?

A:Not enough free space?

I figured it out. There was an extra partition on each drive. Each was small (~100 MB). I deleted both of those partitions and then reallocated the space on each drive and now Windows is installing.

Hi recently my comp got wiped by a virus so we had to get it fixed and basically its back to its original setting however we constantly get a box at bottom of right of screen saying it's full, my wife also did something on it the other day and the following message came on:

I have a 60gb OCZ ssd, so space is at a premium. I did disable hibernation for starters which helped.

If I go to Windows Explorer & right click on my drive, it says I am using 42.3GB with 17.1GB free. If I go into my C drive & select all & then right click & goto properties, it says I am using 32.8 GB & that is also the size on the disk.

Hi for some reason all of a sudden my computer completly ran out of space. Before i had a little less than half free. I tried to delete some things and it would free up some space but the next day it would have nothing again. i dont know what it is im guessing a virus but i dont know how to deal with it.If someone can help me that would be great.thanks matt

I have no idea what s going on but my computer a Dell Inspiron has only GB of Local Disk C left on it Now for the past months i ve been editing amp burning DVD s and films using editing software like Adobe Premiere Pro etc and i ve never had a problem I ve always had at least GBs or so i believe of free space at any given moment when messing around with that stuff When editing today I was alerted that my local disk C space! GB: 70 Free but 1 only GB of was running low and once i agreed to do a clean-up of some sort to remove temporary internet files amp offlines files etc i got a problem Suddenly my system was unstable and I had MB of free space This makes absolutely no sense to me There are no viruses that i m aware of and i ve deleted all of my video-editing projects amp DVD files Still i have only GB of free space I would be 70 GB: but only 1 GB of Free space! grateful for 70 GB: but only 1 GB of Free space! anyone that takes the time to consider my problem for a moment Also when i was doing the Local Disk clean up and the problem occured i got this quot Windows File Protection Files that are required for windows to run properly have been replaced by unrecognized versions To maintain system stability windows must restore the original versions of these files Insert you now Retry more information cancel quot I wasn t able to get my CD-ROM at the moment but would this have something to do with the problem Thanks nbsp

I'm running windows xp I have only have a 20 GB hard drive half is for a c-drive whitch is filling up and half is for a D-drive which has a lot of spare room. c drive is NTSF and the D-drive is fats32 how can i make better use of the space on the d drive also the d drive has an Extended partition around it i dont know why. i had a scanner that showed me all the stuff on my c-drive but i lost it and dont remember what it was.

A:free space

Quote:

Originally Posted by jchos3

I'm running windows xp I have only have a 20 GB hard drive half is for a c-drive whitch is filling up and half is for a D-drive which has a lot of spare room. c drive is NTSF and the D-drive is fats32 how can i make better use of the space on the d drive also the d drive has an Extended partition around it i dont know why. i had a scanner that showed me all the stuff on my c-drive but i lost it and dont remember what it was.

You say the C Drive is filling up. Understandable considering the size of the XP operating system. What is it filling up with?

Do you have a lot of pictures/music/video files? If so, start saving them on the D drive.

Do you like to install a lot of programs use them once or twice and forget about them? If so, clean up the C drive by uninstalling any programs that you don't use on a regular basis (or at all for that matter). If you still use these programs and need to install new programs you can elect to begin installing new programs to the D drive.

Another option, if you feel up to it, is to use a 3rd party partition manager. With a partition manager you can join the C and D partition to form one large C drive. I am not very familiar with partition managers as I don't like to mess with a partition if Windows is running well. Many of these partition managers boast that they can divide/join partitions without loss of data or the need to reinstall windows. Use with caution though. For every ten success stories I've read there has been one story of how the user lost everything.

Yet another option (not for the faint of heart) is to zero the hard drive and create one large partition. This will of course nuke all data on the hard drive (both partitions). You will then have to format and reinstall Windows. While this may seem like a daunting task there are some benefits. Your system will run better, faster, stronger because you are purging old, unused files that get in the way of a smooth OS as well as restructuring files on the drive. Kind of like a defrag on steroids.

im desperately trying to free up space and im having a lot of trouble jsut trying to figure out where all 18gb's are, but i found this folder in the c drive OLDREST and it claims to be taking up about 6 or 7gb's, what is the purpose of this folder and is there anyway i can delete it (without messing up my computer obviously) or just parts of it to free up space

A:trying to free up space

Delete the entire contents of the Oldrest folder sending it to the Recycle Bin. Then if you have no problems for a couple days, empty the Recycle Bin.

The folder is probably left over from a past Recovery/Reinstall of the system. You may recall. There is another possibility, it could be used by a Virtual Drive program. You'd know if you have one of those or ever have had.

Hello all I have a question regarding the free space on my C drive I am space my did go? free Where loosing space on the C drive constantly I have uninstalled programs that might be taking up a lot of space but I don t seem to get space back when I uninstall them I am running Windows XP and I keep getting these LOW DISK SPACE baloon popups in the lower right corner They are very annoying if you know what I mean I Where did my free space go? am looking for a way to have my PC run faster and to have some space to actually run smoothly I was putting off telling you how much free space I have but I guess now is the time prepare yourselves ONLY MB I don t know how this keeps happening I uninstall programs run disk cleanup everyday I have MB and then after sitting for about minutes not even touching it I have MB Pathetic as it might sound it is really bad I was corresponding with a Microsoft quot Tech quot about this We moved My Documents over to the D Drive calling it quot My Docs quot Apparently all my apps save it there as the default now Would it be safe to delete My Documents on the C Please post back with any ideas as taking minutes to get into windows on an Athlon Athlon XP is pretty bad Thanks -Mark nbsp

OK i just uninstall ed ubuntu from my system so now i just have windows vista.

I right clicked on my computer and click manage , i then went to driver management and then i saw free space of about 33.76 GB that was the GB that i shranked my other drive to install ubuntu but i do not have ubuntu anymore so is there a way i can get that 33.76 GB back into my drive i right click on my other drives there is no option to extend my drive. can someone help me thanks a lot.

I am using windows vista home premiumi have a laptopacer aspire9410memory: 1014

Hello ive not long brought this pc. and ive notice its got a drive c/dmy c drive is full. how can i go about moving space from d to c.im got a screen shot of it here

Thnx

A:Hdd Free space

You dont say what o/s you can do it in windows but its simpler to use a free tool https://www.paragon-software.com/home/pm-express/ you have 2 choices delete d then grow c into the free space then you have a full size c or you can shrink d to the right create free space in front then grow c so you then still have ac d drive

I m running XP home on my laptop and running out of space? free-up some space Man a -gig hd just doesn t go very far anymore Anyhoo my C partition is about gb with about mb free space left I d like to think I m pretty good about keeping my drives nice and clean storing data and installing programs on the D free-up some space? partition leaving C for system files only I use the disk cleanup utility to get rid of temp files I empty the recycle bin clear IE history empty deleted items in OE etc but I m still teetering on the edge of running out of swap space I haven t had much luck in the past with third party cleanup apps but I may be willing to try again any suggestions Can I delete my windows update uninstall files windows ntuninstall if I haven t had any problems with any of the hot fixes and service packs That would free-up about mb TIA m nbsp

A:free-up some space?

Move your virtual memory to the other partition – and set it to something rational based on your RAM. The more RAM you have the less VM you need – not the other way round. XP will warn that you will lose debug capability – at least XP Pro does. No biggie IMO.

Consider reducing or eliminating your system restore space. If you have a burner you can ghost the boot drive which is a lot better than the XP restore.

My motherboard requires SP1 to give me USB2, so I just dumped the uninstall files. I don’t know why they were there at all – I thought I elected to not make them when I installed the Windows updates. It doesn’t seem to have done any harm.

I'm looking to free up space on my hard drive. Is it OK to uninstall old .NET versions, old java versions, and old windows updates? The old versions occupy tremendous space on my computer and if they can be safely removed I'll love to remove them. Is it safe to remove old versions of .NET framework, java consoles, and windows updates?

Hi all I have a recent clean install of Windows Pro I have an SSD I got it a few years ago still pretty pricey at the time It's not quot huge quot as far as storage space goes GB so I like to keep things as lean as possible on it I have a separate HDD with TB Free Up Win 10/ Space of storage inside of my tower case So on the SSD as far as the quot C quot drive goes I have the OS and only the necessary program files Now Win 10/ Free Up Space the storage space issue I know if you disable quot Hibernation quot CMD prompt Right Win 10/ Free Up Space click Run as Admin type the following in powercfg exe Win 10/ Free Up Space hibernate off Press Enter and reboot your computer that that can free up some space Let me check this with you and tell me if this sounds feasible In Windows if you go to Control Panel System System Protection then highlight Local Disk C System it's usually by Default quot On quot If I click on the Configure button mine says that GB is being used for the Current Usage Under the heading of quot Restore Settings quot there are two radio buttons quot Turn On System Protection quot quot Disable System Protection quot by Default it's quot On quot This is all just basically for System Restore correct Like if something went freaky you can just restore your system to a previous point in the past correct If I chose the radio button of quot Disable System Protection quot would that give me back that GB I mentioned above I also have an external NAS which is constantly backing up my computer If something freaky ever happened and I needed to install Windows again from scratch all my important files folders are being backed up anyway I also noticed after pressing that Configure button that it has a section where it has a slider control and on mine it shows GB And there's also a Delete button here which says quot Delete all restore points for this drive quot So what say you quot Disable System Protection quot Would this free up some space for me And like I said I have a NAS doing constant backup for me anyway Or adjust that slider to even less than And click that Delete button to clear out any recently created restore points Would this free up space Thanks for any info Pez

Hi all-I seem to have a problem with Windows 7 not updating the Free Space of my HDD. I've been deleting and/or moving files and my Primary HDD doesn't recognize the fact that there has been a change. For illustrative purposes, I've included 2 screenshots, one of what I see when I open 'Computer:'

...and one of WinDirStat (which is, AFAIK, a true representation of what is actually on my HDD...)I somehow managed to regain 3GB (up to 6GB), but I'm missing much more. Any help/insight is appreciated. I've run CHKDSK, and I've looked for everything I can think of, all with no joy. (The highlights in WinDirStat are mine.)

Thanks for looking.

-Fuentes

A:HELP! - With Free Space

First of all, run Windows 7 SP1 Disk Cleanup Tool and see if the situation is changed or not.

This is my first post here. I was happy to hear of this forum when I did.

I have an old (2002) Toshiba Sattelite S1800-712 laptop (Windows XP 2002 Home), that has filled up almost completely. Btw, I only use the computer for Word and internet.I am unable to install the Windows automatic updates, and unable to rearange (defragmentate?) my hard drive ( I don't have the required 15% free space on my C drive, the D drive is still good, and has free space enough.)I already have deleted everything I can miss, music listening programs, extra dvd viewing programs, etc. What can I do to free up more space? Can I fe delete old updates for Java, and Windows?Can I just randomly move programs to my D drive? Can I make changes to the size of both drives? (Make the D smaller and the C larger.)Thanks in advance.best regards,

Marc

A:How do I free up space in my old laptop?

Hi, try doing Defrags and disk clean ups. My PC was pretty slow before I did them now I have apx 50% free space on my laptop

Hi guys i need you help!The free space of my hard drive is shrinking like crazy from 420 gb it went to 120 in almost one week!I didnt install anything but i have been having bsods 0x93 which are now gone.Also i have windows uptade problems.As you can see in the attached screenshot the windirstat says that i use 550 gb but windows says i use 806 gb!

A:Free Space Shrinking

Hmm, maybe WinDirStat is not showing System Volume Information folder.

One possibility - What's your anti-virus? Avast?

Unhide Protected System files from folder options and see if WinDirStat will show a better result.

Ok, I'm having a huge problem. A friend of mine noticed a while back that he was losing free space on his computer and swears that he had not been installing anything or adding that many files. So, two weeks ago we took note of how much free space he had, and I told him not to add any files or install any programs. He called me yesterday and told me that he dropped from 17GB free space to 14GB free space in those two weeks with no added data.

I thought it could be his back up utility not deleting previous backups, but when I checked it his back up utility hadn't run in over a year anyhow.

Any ideas as to what could cause such drastic loss of free space. He said that when he first noticed the problem, he had almost 40GB of free space.

Anyhow, thanks for the help.

A:Free Space Loss

Hi nisim777 !

A backup utility may only update the "last used" date when it's run manually. Check that it doesn't have any automated backup feature enabled. What's the name of the backup utility ?

What's the space used by system restore ? Right-click my computer => properties => system restore => settings. You want to leave at least 1GB but more than that isn't really needed.

There are free softwares like windirstat that allow you to see what files and folders take up the space on the drive, it'll help us find out what program is behind this. Run the program with an admin account and make sure you see all the files on the drive : in my computer go to tools => folder options => view => tick "show hidden files and folders", untick "hide protected operating system files", click apply then apply to all folders.

It seems like every day recently my leftover free space changes, sometimes it increasing, sometimes decreasing. I havent downloaded many files or deleted many files recently, and it fluxes about half a GB. are there reasons why my comp would do this?

Also, what is happening when all of a sudden an open window I have on my comp goes from clearish to solid light blue up by where the minimize, maximize and close buttons are?

A:Free Space Changing

This might be due to the creation of new system restore points and the deletion of very old system restore points. As for your second problem, can you post a screenshot?

I understand that this does happen but when the drive is only 12% full it is unbearably slow.

Any suggestions?

A:XP Slowdowns re- HDD Free Space

The problem could be hardware or software based. So first thing to do is rule out which one.

So, start the computer in Safe Mode and see if it is still slow.
Turn the power on the computer and keep tapping F5 (or F8 if that fails)Keep tapping until you see a menu (black screen, white writing).Use the keyboard arrows and EnterLog in as normalIt will ask you a YES/NO question - choose YesCheck speed

Code:
defrag C: /X
which will consolidate free space, it takes about 40 or more minutes on 150GB HDD.

what means this command?or what free space consolidation means?

thank you.sasanet.

A:What's free space consolidation?

free space consolidation takes all free sectors and such on your hard drive and arranges them together so they are contiguous. If you don't do that, it just means that some files could get placed into other blank areas between files and such on your hard drive. Hard drives are so fast these days, that I'm unsure as to whether bothering with free space consolidation would really make a noticeable difference.

Good day! I've been trying to find a fix for this one but the answer seems to elude me for weeks. Here's my question. My drive C is set to 50Gb and after I reinstalled all my programs, I was only left with around 8 to 11Gb. Why I'm not sure you ask? Well, at times when I view my free space, it gives me 8Gb at times and 11Gb at times. Now, I get 4Gb free space. I set My Documents folder to be saved on my D drive and my backups at my portable HDD. I did a disk cleanup and nothing was found in the recycle bin. Did a full scan just in case (Kaspersky, Malwarebytes & SuperAntispyware) and found nothing. And also, did a defragmentation (even if it was at 1%) just to be sure. Any ideas? Thanks!

A:Random free HDD space

WelcomeI would guess it is your restore points, maybe they are being deleted, by your software or defrags, which is not goodDownload windirstat and you can look at your entire hard drive and know what is on ithttp://windirstat.info/

ref Version 10.0.14393 Build 14393 Am not entirely sure what Microsoft is thinking but now have been through the process to update two Win 10 32GB tabs to Windows 10 Anniversary You need over 15GB free to get past the first check but then started getting an error 80070070 "insufficient free space". This continued until I had freed up 18.2GB on disk C. No option to use external disk as with Win 10. This is not for the faint of heart as in the end I was moving whole program directories and "gigantic" files to the D drive (sdCard). However it can be done. Whether the new build is any good is yet to be seen.

i need to have more space for a movie but cant locate the missing files

A:disk space 4 free

Post a screenshot of your Disk management.Click on start-type "disk management" in the search box and click on "create or format hard disks partition".The tutorial for uploading screenshot is below Screenshots and Files - Upload and Post in Seven Forums

Is it normal for space on your hard drive to be used up this quickly.Four days ago I had used up 21.1GB of space, today that has increased to 21.8GB. If my maths is correct that adds upto 700mb of space used in just 4 days. It appears to have been using space up at this rate since I had Win 10 put in. I haven't downloaded anything to have used up so much space.

A:Free Space Issues

Surfing the internet will save files onto the PC so if you wanted to clear all your temporary files - there is a program in windows 10 called Disk Cleanup

Hi, I have tried all the usual things to free up space on my harddrive and not much changes. I've deleted old files, removed programs, deleted temp files, disc clean up, everything and I still have no free space 2.31 GB... what can I do?? I need more space.

A:no free space on drive c

Hello corrina87,

After running the usual apps (disk cleanup,defragmentation) and uninstalling unused

programs you find that you still don't have enough HDD space it maybe time to consider

upgrading or adding another HDD either internally or by an external drive.

W 2000 is installed on a 10 gig partition, which is reported to use 6.7gigs of space.However the drive properties report 9.36 gigs used, and 414 megs free.I have already checked the MFT usage... very small, and used treesize to check used space.Treesize reports the drive treesize as 6,832 MB... 6.8 gigs, if you like.A large discrepancy.... where has the 2.5 gigs of space disappeared to?No... no pagefile.sys, or hyberfile... Pagefile is on another partition.Found that Norton SystemWorks created Folder in Recycler is the problem. It reports 3 gig in NProtect folder, but these files cannot be deleted... Error message says "Cannot delete xxxxxxx Cannot find the specified file. Make sure you specify the correct path and filename"This folder is a result of Systemworks setting up a "Nortons protected Recycle Bin", but after Systemworks was removed, this remained.

The programs I have, plus Windows XP; do not total the amount of space "used" on my 40 Gb HDD. The free space has dropped from 8Gb to only 4Gb over the last week! Is there a way to check exactly what space all my legitimate software is occupying? I've run "disc clean up" and defragmented. emptied the recycle bin and deleted temporary internet files. but don't see any more freed up space. Am I just paranoid?

It s my first post here and apologies if this has been answered recently I did a search but didn t find anything I have Free On Up Can't C: Drive Space a Dell Dimension Pentium running Windows XP with Service Pack My hard drive is GB and I have it partitioned with my c being GB using NTFS format The problem is that I only have a few hundred meg of free space on c even though I do not install any programs nor save any data to it I have done all the usual things emptied the recycle bin deleted temp files even moved my ServicePack files to another partition I purchased Partition Magic in the hopes of making c larger but I get a warning saying that c may be unbootable if I do so SO I have a few questions If I increase the size of c beyond GB will my drive really become unbootable if using NTFS and Windows XP or is this only a problem with NT How can Can't Free Up Space On Drive C: I free up more space on c Both hubby and I have separate log-in profiles so under c documents and settings Can't Free Up Space On Drive C: we both have all sorts of files with application data for various programs that are installed on other partitions Do these need to stay on c Can't Free Up Space On Drive C: and if not how do I move them Some programs for example my HP printer driver do not allow me to choose which drive on which to install so they end up on c Is there any way to force these to install onto other partitions Can I move my Fonts folder to another partition and how do I access it there I have heard that c should be kept as small as possible but my Windows folder itself is already GB Any advice appreciated Thanks midvale

A:Can't Free Up Space On Drive C:

If you are saving a lot of data in your My Documents folders then you can move these to another partition to free up space on the C: drive. This article has more information.

Good Afternoon forum I'd consider myself a pretty HD Baffled: No space. free good PC user and can normally 'fix' or work round problems I encounter in my PC use but the problem I or rather my girlfriend has with her laptop has me completely stumped First of all the spec Acer Z pentium dualcore ghz gb ddr ram GB HDD windows vista The problem basically NO free HD space at all WinDirStat gives a number of MB spare - which out of GB Baffled: No free HD space. with Baffled: No free HD space. barely any programs at all installed no photos videos music etc - is very odd She's ran disk clean up and there is no change at all There's the obvious pagefile Baffled: No free HD space. sys GB and hiberfil sys GB taking up a fairly large chunk but what looks odd to me is the GB of application extension DLL files that WinDirStat flags up See the attached photo for the visual breakdown of the HD from WinDirStat Uploaded with ImageShack us The amount of blue DLL is just crazy for having basically no programs at all installed There's no games photoshop cad itunes etc like there is on my computer yet somehow GB of her HD is taken up with DLLs I'm totally baffled Is it possible to delete some of these Why are they all there The second part of the problem may well be the most crucial but again I've not seen anything like this before Instead of how I'm used to seeing 'my computer' look when opening it - one HD called 'DRIVENAME C ' then the bar showing below showing capacity level her 'my computer' shows 'ACER C ' and 'DATA D ' The ACER bar is red full with ' MB free of GB' but the DATA bar is blue with GB free of GB - it's almost like the drive has been partitioned but she has never told the computer to do so Oddly word documents for example can be saved into a D location and dragging files out of a C location to a D location copies the files to that destination not moves them No programs can be installed into a 'D ' location either It's a most bizarre setup and I'm sure that is probably the cause of the total lack of available 'free' HD space though I'm at a total loss to explain how Any help or thoughts would be greatly appreciated Many thanks Matt

A:Baffled: No free HD space.

Hi -

Could you list some computer spec information in your next post please.

Also, download Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware and install then /scan to check for any infection and post back results. Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware: Malwarebytes

I have acer aspire 5100 laptop. And I was wondering if there is a way that the c drive can be ran with the d drive to have more hard disk space.If not then is there a program that will clean the c drive from all previous programs that have been uninstalled but still take up space that can`t be regained? I have dual prossesor with two hard disk. Windows Vista home premium.

A:C drive low on free space

Try using ccleaner (im my signiture) to try and clear up some space. You can combine the D drive but make sure its not a recovery partition. To combine them go to start and look in the search for "disk managment" but make sure you know what you are doing :D

also check the recycle bin make sure that you get rid off all that you dont need

Hi,things that I installed on my computer add up a total of 2gb ..My Windows Folder size is 2.5gb .Total add up is around 4-5gb.But,my computer said that I used 13.6gb and left with 4.94gb!!Total space is 18.6gb.

I had Fedora Live installed on my computer for a class that I was taking, I was dual booting with Win 7. I know longer need Fedora so I deleted or cleared it from the partition. I want to extend the "C drive" into it like was before, but I can't. I have tried the command prompt and attempted the steps in other threads but have no luck. Everyone's threads are a little different so I don't want to mess something up. Here are the screen shots.

Thanks

A:Extend into Free Space

Quote: Originally Posted by jscolt45

I had Fedora Live installed on my computer for a class that I was taking, I was dual booting with Win 7. I know longer need Fedora so I deleted or cleared it from the partition. I want to extend the "C drive" into it like was before, but I can't. I have tried the command prompt and attempted the steps in other threads but have no luck. Everyone's threads are a little different so I don't want to mess something up. Here are the screen shots.

Thanks

Just right click the green partition and delete away.

You should then have a black section instead and from your Windows 7 partition, right-click and EXTEND.

Im simply looking to free up some space and was looking for a few ideas, i'v been advised to disable page file and disable system restore but that doesn't seem very safe to me so if you have any suggestions please

thanks guys

A:[SOLVED] Free up space

Bad advice - disabling the paging file is not a practical option as it will slow Windows down very noticeably even if you have plenty of RAM. Windows needs virtual memory - full stop.

Disabing SR is a practical option but only if you have a full system backup such as a disk-image which can be quickly deployed when Windows screws up, plus an up-to-date backup of all your user data. You could alternatively leave SR enabled but reduce the maximum amount of disk-space it is allowed to use, though that will mean there will be fewer restore points available at any given time compared to what you had before.

If turning off SR does not appeal to you because you cannot meet the above backup requirements, you will have to make some hard choices & uninstall any large apps which you can live without or don't use very often.

The ultimate and "real" solution is to either replace the hard disk with a new, larger-capacity one or add a second hard disk to your system which you can use for installing new apps.

So i have just done a Brand new clean install of Windows 7. I formatted my Hard drive, so that i could have a back up drive with Windows 7. I have left over space and tryed adding it to Windows 7 Partiton, but it wont let me, So i download Partition Wizard, to try and get windows to take the space but no luck.

A:Free space taking over HD

What have you tried? Resizing Win7 into the space with Partition Wizard? Did you Apply and have it reboot to do the resizing? Then what happened?

I've never seen Free Space before. Usually it's Unallocated space. Anyone know what it is and how to Resize a Win7 partition into Free space if it won't work with Partition WIzard?

Having recently free up Disk not will space bought a new laptop I quickly filled up the GB hard drive with games music videos etc I decided to delete some of the games that I hardly play and I have on Disk space will not free up an external hard drive anyway However no matter how much I delete the free disk space barely changes I have deleted at least GB worth of data so far and have MB of Disk space will not free up free space I just deleted a GB folder and there was absolutely no change in the free disk space Does anyone know what might be going on I am running a virus scan at the moment and disk cleanup barely did anything either Thanks in advance for the help Edit I have restarted my computer a few times since deleting the first few items and it hasn't changed upon restart Also I can delete files and folders on my external hard drive from this laptop and it shows that the free space has increased as it should

A:Disk space will not free up

I right clicked all of the folders on C drive and added up their total sizes. It came to roughly 149GB which is well below the maximum capacity of 320GB (including hidden files and folders).